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AcdntlPoet's take on the matters at hand

Editor: ‘AcdntlPoet’: sp?

Author: Stet. It’s a moniker. Like the one above it...

Editor: Moving pictures in a proof?

Author: It’s a forest. It moves. Let it go.

A bon vivant, a boulevardier, a man about the ‘virtual town’; of various passions and pursuits who contradicts himself and contains multitudes.

Editor: Whitman. Credit?

Author: He won’t mind.

§ 1 · Working

20+yearsof knowledge work

Professionally, I am a passionate, results-driven thought leader who leverages work on knowledge strategy: the discipline underneath customer success, enterprise support, content strategy, and, these days, every AI initiative your company is betting on.

Editor: Delete. Nobody talks like this.

Editor: Serial comma: always.

Author: Always.

See Working

Every AI initiative is a knowledge initiative wearing a trench coat.

Editor: Set as display. Bigger.

Author: Bigger.

§ 2 · Writing

292entriessince 2006

Here, in blog form, I write about knowledge strategy, context management, and whatever else demands an ellipsis…

Editor: That’s one.

See Writing

§ 3 · Photographing

41printsin the gallery

I photograph the blue hour, the fog, and the road in between. Now and then my own shadow wanders into the frame, and I leave it there.

A rider’s long shadow across a golden field at dusk
A driftwood branch on wet sand, a headland in mist under a wide sky
A sailboat at anchor in grey fog, its mast reflected in still water

Editor: Your shadow is in the first print.

Author: It was there first.

Editor: Crop tighter?

Author: No. Leave the sky.

See Photographing

§ 4 · Being

27yearswith the 3 Drunken Celts

Editor: 27 years. Check.

Author: Checked. Ouch.

I am also a wine and whiskies enthusiast: a co-founder of the 3 Drunken Celts tasting group, once chief distiller at what was then the smallest legal distillery in Oregon, and today an owner-operator of Big Bottom Distilling.

Editor: AU: whisky or whiskey?

Author: Both. It depends on the bottle.

Editor: And this?

Author: Research.

See Being

I work hard and play harder. I am obdurate, sardonic, and heavily opinionated… except when I’m not.

Editor: That’s two. And it’s only galley one.

Author: Stet. Both.

I wantonly abuse ellipses and have a deep love for Strunk & White, CMOS, and the serial comma. I have quixotic ideas and strive to be the greater fool.

Editor: Confirmed. See above.

Editor: ‘greater fool’: sure?

Author: Certain.

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$ git log --graph --date=short -- me

Editor: Squash these?

Author: No. The history stays.

  1. 2026-09-09
    writing
    The Still Doesn’t Make the Whiskey

    Editor: Whiskey?

    Author: Correct here. American.

  2. 2026
    working
    Wrote the operating model down. Contextkeeping.
  3. 2023
    writing
    Thirty-eight entries in one year
  4. 2019-12
    working
    IBM developerWorks closes. The blog I co-authored retires at 60M+ views.
  5. 2012-10-12
    being
    Another 1760 mile round trip…

    Editor: Three.

    Author: …

  6. 2012-09-13
    photographing
    WaywardCelt Photography: the official launch
  7. 2012
    being
    First expressions at Tualatin Valley Distilling
  8. 2011..2013
    writing
    One hundred and fifty entries

    Editor: 150 in three years?

    Author: I had opinions.

  9. 2006
    writing
    First entry
  10. 1999
    being
    3 Drunken Celts
workingphotographingwritingbeing
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